Hexaprotodon

Hexaprotodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
pygmy hippoPBDB
Sits inside
HippopotaminaePBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Hippopotamidae
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 118 occurrencesMiocene — about 17 of 118 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 46 of 118 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 56 of 118 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 15 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 21 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 25 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 16 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

118 occurrences of Hexaprotodon on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

118 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

24 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.75°N, 36.36°EKoobi Fora — 3.73°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 3.70°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.09°N, 36.31°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.78°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.86°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.26°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.72°ENachukui — 3.93°N, 35.76°ENachukui — 4.10°N, 35.77°ESagantole — 10.48°N, 40.60°ESagantole — 10.62°N, 40.58°ESagantole — 10.45°N, 40.45°ESagantole — 10.47°N, 40.50°EShungura — 5.06°N, 36.04°EShungura — 5.09°N, 36.06°EShungura — 5.05°N, 36.03°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EAdu-Asa — 10.37°N, 40.23°EAdu-Asa — 10.43°N, 40.42°EHadar — 11.14°N, 40.58°EMatabaietu — 10.30°N, 40.25°EMatabaietu — 10.55°N, 40.58°EMatabaietu — 10.51°N, 40.58°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EIrrawaddy — 20.43°N, 94.92°EIrrawaddy — 21.75°N, 95.83°ELothagam 1 — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°ETatrot — 30.73°N, 76.78°EPinjor — 32.94°N, 73.97°EPinjor — 32.97°N, 74.13°EKanapoi — 2.37°N, 36.08°EWarwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENyabusosi — 1.00°N, 30.50°ELusso Beds — 0.03°N, 29.62°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WNagrota — 32.70°N, 74.85°EPucangan — 7.40°S, 110.82°ESahabi — 30.00°N, 20.00°EKali Glagah — 7.24°S, 109.01°E

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The named rock units Hexaprotodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hexaprotodon and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hexaprotodon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

708 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 112 sites for Hexaprotodon, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

51 references

Each of the 118 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 39 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Hexaprotodon

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hexaprotodon was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHippopotaminae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Falconer and Cautley 1836)